Making Crucible steel in Bethlehem Steel company plant, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,during World War 1. View of the crucible steel shop. Men, each known as a "puller out " reach in with tongs and extract the crucibles from a furnace, below, raising them to the shop floor. The crucibles are then moved by dollies to the" teemers" who use their tongs to swing the crucibles toward the molds. View of Open Hearth furnace being tapped into a large crucible and poured from crucible into molds on mill floor. Large hot steel ingots being moved on rail flatcars pulled by locomotive. Many flat cars of ingots standing in steel mill yard. Hot ingots on rail cars being rearranged by large overhead cranes. Men look at and discuss an enormous steel forging on a rail car. Overhead crane moves iron ore and coke in the stockyard of the Bethlehem plant. A veritable mountain of iron ore in the background.
Men install small parts onto flat head V8 engine blocks on Ford assembly line. Men install crank shafts into engine blocks. Worker honing spinning parts on a grind wheel using a file. Man inspecting parts with a microscope. Iron ore lifted out of a ship with cranes. Cranes dumping iron ore in a pile on land. A life saver life ring with the words, 'Henry Ford II Detroit' Man unloading boxes from a truck onto a conveyor belt. Man rolling automotive wheels out of railroad car onto an overhead conveyor system. African-American man pulling flat head V8 engine block pulled off an overhead conveyor and onto a ramp. View of overhead conveyor containing many parts including crank shafts, wheels, and other parts. View of flat head Ford V8 engine blocks and heads on conveyor belt. Man on a train coming out of a coal or ore mine.
River dock scene near Ford River Rouge manufacturing plant. Men using blow torches stand inside partially disassembled old steel and iron ship hulls. They are cutting the ship hulls into large pieces, which are then moved by cranes to form giant stacks adjacent to a railroad train bed, awaiting transport to Ford factories for melting and recycling, to make automobiles.
Ford Motor Company employees move along roadway during a parade with sign 'Ford Patriotic rally' during World War 1. They carry banners along with British and American flags, as they move. '5000' formed of small stars appear. The text on signs reads: "This war is our business", "Put the Iron Cross on the man who 'double cross' ", "Hang the Spy", "Hell is too good for the Hun" and "There is no bridge over the Atlantic but there are thousands of Ford's boys". (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
"Making Steel for War" shows powered shovel digging iron ore out of an open pit mine. After obtaining the Iron Ore ,it is crushed and shipped to steel mills. Countless open railroad cars filled with iron ore in a marshalling yard. Iron ore being loaded into an ore carrier ship. The ship carrying the Iron Ore reaches its destination, where huge cranes with claw buckets reach in and remove the iron ore from the ship. View of steel mill complex including rail yard, furnaces, and numerous structures. Powered shovel digging limestone out of open pit mine and loading it on to conveyer. Coal being discharged from coking ovens and bursting into flames when it contacts the open air. .
Large pieces of old, cut, double layer ship hulls are seen in piles next to railroad tracks. A large crane loads steel and iron hull pieces onto flatbed rail cars. Railroad train flatbed cars rolling into Ford River Rouge plant carrying pieces of old steel and iron ship hulls. View of a giant piece of ship hull being fed into a crushing device that flattens the double wall hull into one piece. View of rollers past the crushing block to carry crushed pieces away. Crane with magnet is used to lift pieces of crushed ship hull and drop them into smaller bins on a flatbed rail car.
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